Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your July 27 issue of TIME, I came across an interesting paragraph in the "Miscellany" column. It dealt with a small child addressing a plea for money on a letter, to God, City of Detroit. Obviously this letter was opened-but what I would like to know is, Who opened it? A very presumptuous person, if a clergyman. But as a matter of curiosity, would you please clear this...
...York City has been estimated as high as 5,000, about two-thirds of whom are employable. This week witnessed the first overt effort of the jobless to help themselves as a group, with the publication of a weekly tabloid named Newsdom. It is an eight-page, five-column sheet devoted largely to gossip of newspaper offices in the New York metropolitan area, to be sold among working newspapermen, admen & pressmen...
Every small-town paper (not to mention metropolitan dailies) runs a column of personal items, a bald list of local names and picayune events that mean nothing to the outside reader, may mean a lot to knowing fellow-townspeople. Author DeLamater takes a typical column from the "Steepleton Weekly News," makes each item the text for a chapter about the people concerned. By the time she has finished the column she has expanded it into a novel...
...Author DeLamater ticks off her items you begin to see what lies behind the demolition of the old schoolhouse, Dressmaker Willow's "handsome diploma from the Sims School of Dressmaking," the Young Men's Club ball in Firemen's Hall. Like its skeletal column, Personals comes to no conclusion, merely ends; but the author has padded the skeleton, dressed it up into an ingenious semblance of life...
...house organ). Every afternoon he transposes certain stories from late editions of the World-Telegram to the front page of the Repository, and adds at least one more from the A. P. night wire. His friends among newsmen congratulate him on his "consistent editorial policy'': the single column of editorials has never been changed since the first issue...